Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Mimicry, Imitation, and Double Consciousness: The Absence and Presence of Black Heroines in The Woman of Colour and William Earle's Obi
(2013-08-23)This thesis demonstrates how two early nineteenth century British novels, William Earle’s Obi, or The History of Three-Fingered Jack (1800) and the anonymously-written The Woman of Colour; A Tale (1808), feature prominent ... -
Mind the Meander: A Water-First Approach to Architectural Design Method
(2023-08-02)Learning from water’s properties and its natural, life-sustaining processes, this thesis aims to return agency to water, shifting the narrative from water as a resource to water as a partner in design of public parks. To ... -
The Mind's Eye: Reconstructing the Historian's Semantic Matrix Through Henry Knighton's Account of the Peasants' Revolt, 1381
(2011-12-16)The medieval historian engaged with the systems of power and authority that surrounded him. In his account of the Peasants' Revolt in late medieval England, the ecclesiastical historian Henry Knighton (d. 1396) both ... -
MINESCAPE: RE-ENVISIONING THE POST-MINE LANDSCAPE OF YELLOWKNIFE, NWT
(2012-08-24)This thesis explores the process of remediation and renewal in the context of decommissioned gold mining operations in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. The work aims to demonstrate that architecture can ... -
MINI-FLUIDIC SILVER BASED SOLVENT EXTRACTION OF EPA/DHA FROM FISH OIL
(2015-01-29)The extraction of Omega 3 PUFA using silver ions was compared within a mini-fluidic and conventional stirred-tank reactor, with practical extraction yields of EPA –Et, DHA- Et approaching 60 to 70 Wt.%. Equilibrium was ... -
A MINIATURE HIGH RESOLUTION ENDOSCOPE FOR 3D ULTRASOUND IMAGING
(2020-09-15)Miniaturized ultrasound imaging arrays have many potential clinical applications, specifically, in guiding surgical procedures. 3D capable probes are also particularly suited to endoscopic applications because of the large ... -
Miniaturizated Respiratory Monitoring: Synchronous Demodulation & Bi-Directional Ultrasonic Flow Sensing
(2023-08-28)The issues surrounding optimization of respiratory monitoring are of size, power, and SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio). Miniaturization and optimization of components within a respiratory monitoring system is valuable for ... -
A Minimal Morse Resolution of Path Ideals of Lines of Projective Dimension 2
(2024-04-08)We study the connection between a special class of monomial ideals and CW complexes. Let I denote the ideal $I_t(L_{2t+1})$, i.e., a path ideal of line graph of projective dimension 2. We study cellular resolutions and ... -
Minimizing Terminal Food Waste within the Food Supply Chain
(2019-07-04)Approximately 30% of food produced globally is wasted each year. There is a significant need to understand the situation surrounding this food waste phenomenon. This research used a variety of mixed method approaches to ... -
MINING CONSUMER TRENDS FROM ONLINE REVIEWS: AN APPROACH FOR MARKET RESEARCH
(2012-08-28)We present a novel marketing method for consumer trend detection from online user generated content, which is motivated by the gap identified in the market research literature. The existing approaches for trend analysis ... -
Mining the City: A Reimagination of Old City Hall
(2022-08-11)The built environment is a building resource with enormous potential, but in today’s society, it is largely ignored. By mining the city for construction and demolition materials that have been deemed as “waste” before they ... -
Minkery wastewater integrated into microalgae and cyanobacteria production
(2017-09-01)In Nova Scotia, the mink industry has become an essential component to the economic vitality of the agricultural sector. With emerging regulations from the Fur Industry Act of 2010, mink producers are required to identify ... -
Miring in the Muck: Imagining Canada’s Regenerated Peatland
(2023-07-13)It is time that we mire ourselves in the muck. Peat-producing wetlands are disappearing into the atmosphere quicker than arctic sea ice is melting into the ocean, and they are taking millennia of sequestered carbon with ... -
Mirror to the Soul: The Undead in Late Medieval Romance
(2016-08-31)This thesis analyzes the role of undead figures in late medieval romance. Rather than focusing on the nature of the undead figures as representations of good or evil, this paper demonstrates that the undead characters of ... -
MISCARRIAGES AND THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
(2014-08-26)Miscarriages, pregnancy loss less than 20 weeks gestation, are the most common complication of early pregnancy. Women who are miscarrying generally access care in emergency departments (EDs) where treatment focuses on ... -
Misdirecting Modernisms: The Gulf Between Rhetoric and Practice in Raymond Souster's Direction
(2022-04-18)By using Raymond Souster’s little magazine, Direction (1943-46), as a case study, this thesis addresses the gulf between rhetoric and practice in the development of Canadian modernism. In the Forties, Canadian modernists ...